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Obedience to God Fundamentalists condemn me for making myself out to be God. What they mean is that when they look at my website, they don't see the words justification, magisterium, Christ's blood, etc. Instead, they see words like objective reality and rationality. To them, this means I'm replacing the word of God with my own arrogance. At the Nuremberg trials, the Nazis were told that getting orders from Hitler was no excuse for genocide. They were supposed to evaluate orders and be responsible for their own conduct. If God said murder and thievery were virtues, would they be virtues? Not unless self-destruction of the universe were virtue. Instead, it would mean someone had God mixed up with satan. How do humans tell the difference between God and satan? They have to idealize. Humans attribute all that is good to God, and all that is bad to satan. This means the reference is objective reality evaluated through rationality. Without it, there is no way to tell God from satan. But fundamentalists have a different explanation. They say divine revelation tells them the difference. It starts with the Scriptures, and select persons added to it, depending upon the theological view. Christ was crucified for breaking the Ten Commandments. He supposedly blasphemed by claiming to be God. The Ten Commandments meant whatever corrupters wanted them to mean. Christ's purpose was to teach people how to evaluate morality from the lessons of life. This means applying rationality to objective reality. Otherwise, there is no way to determine what the supposed revelations mean. God is not available for consultation every time a moral decision has to be made. Not the least reason is because there is a morality to every thought, word and deed. Morality must therefore be evaluated in one's own mind, not in someone else's mind. Christ said to judge for ourselves what is right (Luke 12:57). The context was resolving disputes with opponents. How could disputes be resolved without rationality applied to morality? In fact, fundamentalists make flimsy arguments for all of their points, which is a form of rationality. There is no such thing as a mind functioning without some rationality. Look at it this way | Another Angle |